Gianna's 7th birthday - Dec 16, 2011

My birthday was Dec 16th. I am now 7 years old.

Here is what I did on my birthday:

I did lots of napping - which is my 2nd favorite thing to do. (Treats are my 1st favorite)
First I napped on my birthday blankie from my Aunt Alice.




Today I got to be queen of the big pillow:


more napping...


And more napping....

I have fallen, and I can't get up:

This is my brother DaVinci and I love watching him:


We wore silly hats:




Mommy and I played fetch for a long time:


We went for a ride to the post office:

We were pooped out again after arts and crafts time:

We played HIde and Seek

My Daddy built this shelf

And that was part 1 of my birthday.

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

Enjoy the slide show:

Rock Hall's Annual Autumn Festival - Oct 2011

Here's our booth. Behind the booth is John and son-in-law Greg
Below you can see the cork board for the hats and capes. I have a look book on the table, which people like to look through. This time I laid the cat toys out on a platter and it worked great. I sold several. And I have a few dressed inflatable dogs hanging around.

Below is a closeup of the hats board day 1:

Next is a close up of the same board Day 2.

The Hubby's area. He made and hung these poles.


He displayed some on a cut tree trunk:


But what brought the most attention were the dolls he secured to a display tray - Iron Man, Phoenix and Wolverine. And the kids all ran over, esp recognizing iron man.


There's the hubby:



We've got a customer. Tucker is Baaad to the Bone.

Donna and Georgi came to visit:
Below is a new hat I made while sitting there at the fair:
End of day 2 - it was a very successful and fun weekend. There is my oldest grandson Thomas. They all helped pack us back up.

FROM EGGS... TO BABIES

I'm a little late in posting this, but this starts about 3 weeks ago...

We got to PA late Thursday night. On Friday morning my husband goes all around watering the potted plants we have on the deck.

He goes upstairs where we have a small deck with a shadow box...

and I hear "There are birds hanging out up here"... Then I hear, "We have eggs!"

Inside the shadow box, is a nest with 4 spotted eggs.

I did see both Mom and Dad, but could not get a picture of them. They are Northern Junkos also known as Dark Slated Junko.

2 weeks later, we went back to PA and.....

there were babies in the nest!

Where you see the yellow lines - that is the outline of thier beaks. If you look close you can see 4 separate yellow outlines. One is beneath the leaf on the left. There ae 4 babies!

And here's Momma. So very hard to see her standing right in the middle over the nest.

((While I was at work, my husband likes to change my screen saver on me, and I came home to this picture. These are not my babies, but I love the similarity, and I just love this picture.))

On Sunday, we packed up to head home. Gianna must think we are going to forget her, because she always climbs on top of the packages. If you take one, she'll just climb up on the next one.

See you later...

JENYA2 - CHECK OUT THIS GREAT SHOP ON ETSY

I'd like to tell you about this wonderful person I met on etsy.... Her name is Jenya.

Jenya has many talents, including designing enamel jewelry and acrylic painting, and loves to use her creativity in color and design. Jenya has a love for animals, and also a great talent for knitting. She has combined all of these loves and talents by creating these wonderful knitted dog sweaters and vests.

Jenya opened up her shop http://www.jenya2.etsy.com/ on etsy in November 2010, and soon after joined the PetsJubilee team, which is where I met her and have since found out what a wonderful, warm, fun and very generous person she is. She has even had numerous giveaways, giving out multiple sweaters at a time, and shares her blog for others to post on.




Her dog sweaters are just beautiful. The one above being one of my personal, all time favorites.

The colors, the patterns in the design, the stitches she uses, really show in her work, and stand out from the rest. She even added these little pockets on the back for treats.

I can speak from experience as I own 3 of her sweaters so far, and will be back for more. Not only do I love the colors and the design, but they are made very well, with quality yarn, and they are so soft, with a comfortable fit for my dogs. Here are some pics of my 2, Giupetto and Gianna wearing them.

The 2nd picture is of a shorter sweater vest, that is another great idea of Jenyas. I now need one of those for my girl.

Jenya also makes these beautiful shrugs for us humans, and uses her same talent and eye for color and detail in these wonderful shrugs.

AND... she has now added these beautiful and unique knitted necklaces to her line.

Won't you stop by her shop and show her some love?